Here are a few of the many assets and characters I designed and animated for the Faza Guru videos while working at Radio Faza.
Dancing Lamb
I made the Lamb dance cycle for the “Wolf and the Lamb” video. The cycle consists of 12 frames that I drew and coloured in photoshop using the timeline window. This one has the bell but I also made another without the bell for when the Wolf has it.
Elephant
I made the Elephant walk cycle for the “Elephant and Friends” video. The cycle consists of 7 frames that I drew and coloured in photoshop using the timeline window. I then exported it as a looped GIF for the final animation.
Bear
The Bear walk cycle was also made for the “Elephant and Friends” video. This walk cycle is made of 8 frames again drawn in photoshop and animated using the timeline window. I like this animation, as I feel as if the weight of the character was captured well.
Rabbit
The Rabbit PNG. was also made for the “Elephant and Friends” video. This character was again drawn in photoshop and animated in the actual video, using the position and rotation markers in after effects. To make it appear to be leaving its burrow.
Frogs
The Frogs were created for the video “A Lesson from a Frog” and featured in “Elephant and Friends”. I made Five different coloured Frogs in total, with all five having a hopping animation and the four shown here also having a stationary PNG. drawing. All five Frogs are shown hopping in the video. However, I thought it would be best to display one here as the animation cycles are the same. The only difference is colour. I have, however, demonstrated the other four frogs static poses. The frogs, when jumping, consist of five frames. However, the start and end is the same image, just in a different location (before jumping and then landing).
Pencil
The pencil was created for “The Parable of the Pencil” video. Again, drawn in photoshop, the original image I drew was warped, using the puppet warp tool on four other frames. Two before the original image and two after, to animate the pencil wiggling back and forth. The timeline went as follows, two frames warped left, the original image as the third frame and the two warped right. So in total, this animation was five frames long.
Pencil Boy
The pencil boy was created for “The Parable of the Pencil” video. The pencil boy was again drawn in photoshop and designed after the pencil in the video. I used the pencils colour scheme when colouring the boys clothing and used the outline of the initial pencil face as a template for the boy’s face. The boy transforms from the pencil to the boy in the video, like Pinocchio changing from puppet to real boy. Therefore the boy had to look somewhat like the pencil he once was.
Paper
The Paper was used in the video the “The Parable of the Pencil” and was created as a PNG. This was so the pencil could be animated leaving his mark. Another PNG. was also made with the word mistake written on it, so that the Pencil could erase the word.
Pencil Sharpener
The Pencil Sharpener was used in the video “The Parable of the Pencil”. This character was animated in After effects, as it was made to look like it was sharpening the pencil. This was done by rotating the character and by adding a particle effect, to give the appearance of the pencil being sharpened.
Pencil Maker & Carpenter
The Pencil Maker was used in the video “The Parable of the Pencil” and as a Carpenter in “building your house”. I liked this character design a lot and so used the character in two videos. I based him on Geppetto as the pencil was based on Pinocchio and drew him two hands from different angles. One in a position to hold the pencil and the other showing five fingers and an open palm, for the scene where he explains “There are five things you need to know”.
Contractor
The Contractor was used in the video “building your house”. based on the character design for the Pencil Maker i designed the Contractor in the same style. The character was animated in after effects just like the Pencil boy and Pencil maker, by rotating the arms from the pivot point on the shoulder.